Biyernes, Nobyembre 25, 2016

DAGUPAN CITY - A Pangasinan congressman manifested to
his colleagues the safety of a former lover of Senator Leila de Lima who was
arrested recently.

SAFETY. Pangasinan congressman Leopoldo Bataoil (2nd
District) appealed to national police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa
to take custody of arrested former driver and body guard Ronnie Dayan when he (Dayan) told a congressional hearing that he had
personal knowledge about the eight
million pesos given by dangerous drug lord Kerwin Espinosa to Dayan’s
former mistress then Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. Photo: Mortz C. Ortigoza.

Ronnie Dayan, charged for contempt of Congress for failure to attend its hearing, was arrested last November 22 atSitio Bato, Barangay Lacong at San Gabriel town in La Union.“Being the father of the Second District, I feel that
I am responsible for his safety including that of his family. And it is
important that he is kept alive so that his testimony for whatever purposes is
seen necessary be put to good use,” Representative Leopoldo Bataoil (2nd
District, Pangasinan) stressed.

Dayan told the members of the Committee on Justice and
Human Rights how he received eight millions pesos of narcotic monies from
drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and how he slapped then Justice Secretary de Lima
upon hearing she had promiscuous relationship with former Metro Manila Development
Authority (MMDA) motorcycle traffic enforcer’s Warren Cristobal.

“Any husband who shall keep a mistress in the conjugal
dwelling, or shall have sexual intercourse, under scandalous circumstances,
with a woman who is not his wife, or shall cohabit with her in any other place,
shall be punished by prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods. The
concubine shall suffer the penalty of destierro (Article 334, Revised Penal
Code).

Concubinage, however, is a private crime. The People
of the Philippines could not sue De Lima on her infraction. It needs the sole
complainant Norlyn, the wife of De Lima’s paramour Dayan, to sue her
so the case sticks.

“But how can the court or the prosecutor hailed Norlyn,
when she received forty thousand pesos monthly from then Justice Secretary De
Lima to keep mum on the affair?,” my source Deep Throat (DP) told me when DP
got the pomelos and durian I brought from Davao City when DP dropped by at our
house in Dagupan City.

Deep Throat’s narration on De Lima and Norly could be
read on myearlier blog.

The marriage of De Lima to lawyer Plaridel Bohol was
already annulled but Norlyn and Ronnie lived in the Orange House in Urbiztondo,
Pangasinan.

“Cohabiting with a married man and had a tryst at the
White House she allegedly built while the wife and children lived nearby the
Orange House she reportedly funded its construction was revolting before the
eyes of sane Filipinos,” Deep Throat emphatically told me as I excitedly commented it too at my radio program.

But the government can still sue the deviant senator
with administrative cases like disbarment because of her disclosure.

The senate through two-third votes, as mandated by the
Philippine Constitution, can expel her, too.

If she is a male senator, public opinion would be
lenient on her because of our machismo culture where a Casanova is envied if
not lauded.

But she is a lady senator and not a mistress for Christ
sake!

It runs smacks on the conservative Filipino traits on
how women behave.

If De Lima is not a high public official, the public
would not give a fuss on her scandalous act. But she was the justice secretary
when she had that licentious relationship with Dayan.

She should not only be a paragon of our laws but an
epitome of a faithful disciple of the law like on how to control her libido.

She did not only screw us, but screw herself before
public condemnation and ridicule.

Nakakahiya anak ng bakang dalaga, nadamay tayong mga
Filipino!

Because of that disclosure,
the suspicion that she abetted Dayang’s conspiracy with jail security officials
and dangerous drug peddlers to perpetuate the narcotics trade in and out of the
national jail in Muntinlupa becomes stronger.

***

That human
frailties Senator de Lima cited as reason she felt in loved with a married man
made me recall how former U.S First lady the “prettiest of ‘em all” Jacqueline “Jackie”
Bouvier Kennedy, a former photographer of Washington Times-Herald, had trysts with
her married brother-in-law in New York’s Senator Robert “Bobby” Kennedy and had sex
with a Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis at his super yacht Christina despite being married to then incumbent
President John F. Kennedy known as JFK.

Here’s Larry Flynt, owner
of the smut Hustler Magazine, on the book he co-authored with David Eisenbach
titled: One Nation Under Sex.

“Aside from her brother-in-law, Jackie carried on affairs with designer of JFK’s eternal flame
memorial, Jack Warnecke; legendary venture capitalist Andre Meyer; and former
undersecretary of defense Roswell Gilpatric. She also bagged (God Father flick's actor) Marlon Brando on a
double date that Lee Radziwill (sister of Jackie, sex mate of President Kennedy
despite being married to Jackie, and girlfriend too of Onassis - Mortz Ortigoza) arranged in
February 1964. After dinner at Washington ‘s exclusive Jockey Club, Lee and Jackie
made a show of leaving the restaurant separately from Brando and Lee’s date,
movie director George Englund, one of her many lovers. The men soon rejoined
the sisters back at Jackie’s house. Lee and Englund canoodle on the couch,
while Brando and Jackie drank and danced. Brando recalled that after Jackie
suggestively “pressed her thight” into, they sat down and began to “make out”.

“Brando noted “Jackie’s boyish hips” and “muscular
frame”; I’m not sure she knew what she was
doing sexually, but she did it well… Only the National Enquirer dared to
report on Jackie’s new lifestyle in a 1996 piece that was aptly titled “From
Mourner to Swinger”.

(You can read my selected
columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com and articles at Pangasinan News
Aro. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)

Biyernes, Nobyembre 11, 2016

United States No.1 radio shock-jock Howard Stern (worth
almost $100 million a year) of the The Howard Stern Show at
Sirius XM Radio did not only interview with then Citizen Donald Trump, the just
elected U.S president, on the latter dalliances that became issues hurled to
him by presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

STERN: This is just cool Bababooey’s reference. Do you guys hear
this? The Philippines President Rodrigo Duarte, this is the actual interview. This
is the guy whose name is Rodrigo Duar.. Duarte…

QUIVERS: Duarte!

STERN: Duarte ! Yeah. Du..Duarte and he is like in the
middle of getting rid of the drug dealers in the Philippines.

QUIVERS: Yeah, it’s a real drug war.

STERN: He is killing a lot of people, and kids have been
killed and he says: “Hey, that’s collateral damage, y’know he seems doesn’t
fucking care but he gives a speech that it sounds like “Bababooey”. Gary, in the Philippines what does Bababooey means?

“Just like in the 8.2 million population’s New York City
where crime rates in 2012 plunged to 450 deaths versus the 3 million populated
thriving gun-for hire province Pangasinan where killers snapped out 249 lives
in the same year” I wrote in my blog in 2012.

I argued there that crime rates like bank, other commercial
establishment robberies, and other crimes like mobile phone snatching,
akyat-bahay, hold- up can be lowered by using the stop and frisk methods (SFM
for brevity).

SFM is the situation in which a police officer who is
suspicious of an individual detains the person and runs his hands lightly over
the suspect's outer garments to determine if the person is carrying a concealed
weapon (The Free Dictionary).

Look what we got here. A high ranking police official in the
other province called me recently because he wanted to study SFM and adopt it
at the province he is presently assigned.

I argued on my blog
that SFM was necessary because of the following observations by the court in
the U.S:

1) Police need a certain flexibility in dealing with quickly evolving and
potentially dangerous situations that arise during routine patrol of the
streets;
2) A rigid and unthinking application of the exclusionary rule (The rule
means that a search of a person should be with the benefit of a warrant or
object that was seen by a lawman to be inflagrante, may exact a high toll in
human injury and frustration of efforts to prevent crime.
3) The court made room for the idea that some police action short of a
traditional arrest (through Plain View and Search Warrant) could constitute a
seizure—that is, "whenever a police officer accosts an individual and
restrains his freedom to walk away, he has 'seized' that person.
Thus, when the police detective Martin McFadden took hold of John W.
Terry and patted him down on that Cleveland street, the detective
"seized" Terry and subjected him to a "search" within the
meaning of the Fourth Amendment (where Philippine Constitution adopted it at
Section 2, Article III ( Illegal search and seizure" of the Bill of
Rights).
But the Fourth Amendment protects only against unreasonable searches and
seizures, so the Court next had to determine whether Terry’s seizure and search
were "reasonable".
4) Reasonable search for weapons is for the protection of the police
officer, where he has reason to believe that he is dealing with an armed and
dangerous individual, regardless of whether he has probable cause to arrest the
individual for a crime.
The court however cautioned the police to avoid using good faith or hunch to
stop and seize a person.” If subjective good faith alone were the test, the
protections of the Fourth Amendment would evaporate, and the people would be
'secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,' only in the discretion
of the police," the court quoted Beck v. Ohio, 379 U.S. 89 (1964).
5) Evidence found on Terry's person was properly admitted because the
search was reasonable. The detective had observed Terry and his companions
acting in a manner of a stick-up. A reasonable person in the detective's
position would have thought that Terry was armed and thus presented a threat to
his safety while he was investigating the suspicious behavior he was observing.
The events he had witnessed made it reasonable for him to believe that either
Terry or his cohorts were armed.
6) The police detective here limited his search to the outer surfaces of
Terry's clothing. His searched was reasonably related for his own safety that
justified the stop from the beginning. Accordingly, the Court concluded that
the revolver found on Terry's person was properly admitted into evidence.
7) The sole justification of the search ... is the protection of the
police officer and others nearby, and it must therefore be confined in scope to
an intrusion reasonably designed to discover guns, knives, clubs, or other
hidden instruments for the assault of the police officer”.

(You can read my selected columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com and
articles at Pangasinan News Aro. You can send comments too at totomortz@yahoo.com)

Huwebes, Nobyembre 10, 2016

SUAL – Known as lady charmer, the Philippine president grudgingly lauded one of the Vietnamese fishermen who developed an affair with a Filipina when he was in jail in Ilocos Sur.

President Rodrigo Duterte, who led the sent off here of the 17 fishermen, said that Vietnam Ambassador Truong Triey Duong whispered to him that one of the Vietnamese jailed at Vigan City, Ilocos Sur had an affair with a Filipina when he and 15 of his compatriots where locked up there.

The other Vietnamese was a minor thus presumed to be under the watch of the Department of Social Welfare & Development.

“Bumulong iyong ambassador daw. Iyong isa daw dito raw may naka uyab raw ng Filipina. Sino?! Mabilis ito? Iba ang yawa! (The Vietnamese ambassador whispered to me that one of them had an affair with a Filipina. Who is he?! He was fast. This demon is different!), the president declared before the hundreds of amused crowds from the national, regional, and municipal offices of the government who attended the first official visit of the president of the republic in this rustic and coastal town and the province of Pangasinan.

On September 8, the 17 Vietnamese fishermen on board three fishing vessels were arrested by the Philippine Navy off Vigan, Ilocos Sur.

Government authorities filed charges against them like violations of Section 91 of Republic Act No. 10654 or An Act to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing; violation of Republic Act 8550 as amended by Republic Act 10654 for poaching and CA 613, Section 37 (a)(1) & (7) for entering Philippine waters at Poro Point, La Union without inspection, admission, and in the absence of nine entry visa and record of arrival in the country.

The Philippine authorities however dropped all these charges because it was argued that the fishermen were forced to reach the Philippine waters due to Typhoon Ferdie and the southwest monsoon from the South China Sea. On October 10, the Justice Department issued a memorandum allowing them to return to Vietnam without fine or penalty.

On October 24, a joint resolution issued by concerned agencies cleared the 17 Vietnamese fishermen to sail for their home country on board their three fishing vessels.

During the sent off last November 2 of President
Rodrigo Duterte of the 17 Vietnamese fishermen who were detained for almost two
months after “poaching” at the sea off of Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Northern Watch Newspaper’s correspondent
Mortz C. Ortigoza chanced upon Department of Social Welfare & Development
(DSWD) Secretary Judy Taguiwalo at Sual Wharf in Sual, Pangasinan. Ortigoza
asked her about the previous tussle she had with the congressmen who insisted
that members of congress through the power of the purse should have entitlement
on the identification of the recipients of government projects. He asked the
Secretary if the solons continue the malpractice of conspiring with the private
contractors in rigging the government bid where two of the three bidders quoted
a higher construction cost thus losing the bid while receiving a bribe from the
winning bidder. Ortigoza also posed to Taguiwalo if the old practice of 20
percent S.O.P, euphemism for cut, continues to be given by the winning bidder
to the congressman. Excerpts:

MCO: Nakapangasawa ako diri. Sa radio program ko, kinumentaryuhan
ko ang ginawa ng mga congressmen sa inyo. Kay kabalo kamo, hampang nila ina mga
projects sila naga identify. Sa ila ang contractors kay ginatagaan sila sang 20
percent S.O.P. Is still there a pressure from them that they should prevail on
what they wanted? (I married a Pangasinense. In my radio program I discussed
about the roughed treatment given to you by congressmen when you appeared at
Congress. It is still their practice where they identify recipients of
government projects and then received 20 percent S.O.P from their favored
contractor? Is still there a pressure from them that you should acquiesce that
they should prevail on what they wanted?).

SEC: Ang usapan puwede sila maglagay ng mga projects nila
during thedeliberation because that is the role
of congress. Di ba? Pero sa implementation na post enactment na, it would be
the department.

For example, emergency shelters. Do congressmen insist
for their favored contractor?

“It’s a non-fight and I
should not be discussing it. Although Magdaleno’s knocked out (KO) ratio was 74
percent on 23 wins, 0 loses (Donaire has 60 percent on his 37 wins, 3 loses),
his records showed he knocked out or technical knocked out those bums and
probably tricycle and funeral parlor’s cars (psst they called that in English
as “hearse”) who ferry those victims of extra judicial killings,” I stressed.

Boxing Promoter Bob Arum is indeed a snake
merchant. He pulled in Donaire to soup up the lousy matched up of Manny Pacquiao
versus ho-hum Jesse Vargas fight.

Vargas, my foot, he had a KO
ratio of 36 percent only in a 27 W-1 L- 0 D records while the Philippines
fighting Senator Pacquiao has 58 percent KO ratio in a 58 W- 6 L – 2 D.

Vargas only elite opponents
in his 28 professional fights were Tim Bradley who outpointed him in June 2015
and TKO’d in March 2016 Sadam Ali (and he was not even Iraq’s Saddam Hussein)
who was an olymphic U.S player.

Huwebes, Nobyembre 3, 2016

While
waiting for the arrival of President Rodrigo Duterte last Wednesday at the
wharf in Sual, Pangasinan for the send-off of the 17 Vietnamese “poachers”, I,
some congressmen, Pangasinan political leaders, mayors, military and police's regional and provincial
top brass were killing our time at a German restaurant exchanging pleasantries.

BRASS.
Top politicians like Pangasinan Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil, military and
police brass

that include three stars Marine general wait for the arrival of
the five powerful engines presidential

Bell helicopters that carry and escort
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte for the send-off last

Wednesday of the 17
Vietnamese fishermen apprehended by law enforcement at the Philippines’ sea.

Photo: Mortz C. Ortigoza

“What
is chocolate in German? I asked the bearded German entrepreneur who served us
the chocolate crowned halo-halo.

“Van
Houten,” he said.

“How about that priest,” I glanced at the
priest and the nun who had a lunch in another table.

“Priester”
he said

“How
about that nun? ” I posed again.

Before
the German could open his mouth so he could utter “Now” the German's translation for nun, a mayor in the western Pangasinan town, who could be mistaken to be a
driver of a mini-bus quipped: “Takot sa Hauten!”

***

PRESIDENT
RODY. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks before the crowd mostly composed of
Pangasinense before he leads the send-off at the wharf in Sual, Pangasinan last
Wednesday afternoon of the 17 Vietnamese fishermen released from detention by
the Philippine government.

The
presidential visit was the first in Sual and the three million population
province after Duterte was elected as president and assumed officed at noon of
June this year.

Background
was the two of the three Vietnamese vessels that would be used by the 17 to
sail for six days to Vietnam. Photo: Mortz C. Ortigoza

“The
president is still in Davao (City),” I heard at 1:00 pm Sual Mayor Bing Arcinue
told the mayors of Western Pangasinan who were in a huddle with their
Congressman Boying Celeste.

I told
them it would take two hours from Davao to Clark, Pampanga in his jet and
another less than 30 minutes from Clark via a helicopter to the rustic town of
Sual.

Why I
know it? Geez, I used to ride in Air Asia via Clark, when the mostly Malaysian
Tony Fernandes’ owned airline used to service the routes, whenever I went home
via Davao City.

Why I
know it took 30 minutes from Clark to Sual?

When
then presidential candidate Mar Roxas barnstormed San Fernando City, La Union,
one of the pilots of his night capable flying helicopter told me that Manila to
San Fernando City took one hour for a chopper to fly, thus I just estimated it
that Clark and Sual, host of the next two biggest more than two thousand megawatts
coal power plants in the Philippines, take less than 30 minutes for the five,
with each powerful two –engine and four blades presidential Bell made helicopters,
to traverse.

***

“Did
it occur to you when you were a cadet at the PMA (Philippine Military Academy)
to join the air force?” I posed to Pangasinan 2nd District
Congressman Pol Bataoil (PMA Class 1976) while he was watching with Region 1
Regional Director Chief Superintendent (one star general) Greg Pimentel,
Pangasinan Police Director Senior Superintendent (full colonel) Ronald Lee
while two air force’s UH-1H” Super Huey” were landing and taking off around
2:30 pm at the wharf probably for some scouting of the area or testing the
gustiness from the Lingayen Gulf.

He
said it never occur in his mind to be a fly boy despite the air force only had
25 percent quota for the graduating class at the long gray line in Baguio City.

“Many
of us then want to be with the PC (Philippine Constabulary). We idolized the
likes of Amado T. Espino, Jr (PMA Class 1972 who later became a three termed
governor of Pangasinan) that apprehended top communist leaders like Dante
“Kumander Dante” Buscayno," Bataoil said.

“Son
of a gun, so the PC had the likes of Espino while the other branches of service
had their heroes. Were you familiar with Army’s hero Julius Javier a goat or
the last in the honor roll of the PMA Class of 1970 but became general and
legendary artillery man Army General Rodolfo Canieso (PMA Class of 1956). Si
Julius Javier may movie pa titled the Scout Ranger!” I enthused.

Bataoil
emphatically told me the feats of Javier, an ilonggo like me.

“Even
as company commander he joined patrol and engaged the Muslim rebels in Mindanao
in a fire fight. There was an incident where Moro snipers were hiding on the
trees in the forest and they were pinning down his troop”

Bataoil
recalled how Javier ordered one of his men to run as bait for the sniper.

“Ninerbiyos
ang sundalo but he had to comply while running as the sniper tried to pin him
down. Javier watched where the shot came from then Javier fired at the location
of the sniper”.

Sometimes
the sniper, the solon explained, could not be hit and he had to order another
soldier to run as bait.

“One
of the soldiers feared that he would die would not comply with the order. An
angry Javier then asked him to watch and fire where the shot came from as he
would use himself as the running target.

After
he ran, he shouted at the nervous soldier if he hit the shooter from the Moro
National Liberation Front (MNLF).

“Hinde
po sir,!” the soldier shouted back.

Javier
asked the soldier to run as bait. The soldier hesitated.

“Javier
shouted pag di ka tumakbo, ako ang babaril sa iyo!”

The
former two- star police general said the poor soldier complied as Javier
trained his Armalite rifle to the whereabouts of the Moro’s marksman.

“Sir,
may mga tall tales about Canieso, an ilonggo and kanyonero, I heard among
non-officers when I visited Awang Dinaig , Maguindanao Air Force base where my
father was assigned in the late 1970s,” I said.

While
waiting for the arrival of President Rodrigo Duterte last Wednesday at the
wharf in Sual, Pangasinan for the send-off of the 17 Vietnamese “poachers”, I,
some congressmen, Pangasinan political leaders, mayors, military and police's regional and provincial
top brass were killing our time at a German restaurant exchanging pleasantries.

BRASS.
Top politicians like Pangasinan Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil, military and
police brass

that include three stars Marine general wait for the arrival of
the five powerful engines presidential

Bell helicopters that carry and escort
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte for the send-off last

Wednesday of the 17
Vietnamese fishermen apprehended by law enforcement at the Philippines’ sea.

Photo: Mortz C. Ortigoza

“What
is chocolate in German? I asked the bearded German entrepreneur who served us
the chocolate crowned halo-halo.

“Van
Houten,” he said.

“How about that priest,” I glanced at the
priest and the nun who had a lunch in another table.

“Priester”
he said

“How
about that nun? ” I posed again.

Before
the German could open his mouth so he could utter “Now” the German's translation for nun, a mayor in the western Pangasinan town, who could be mistaken to be a
driver of a mini-bus quipped: “Takot sa Hauten!”

***

PRESIDENT
RODY. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks before the crowd mostly composed of
Pangasinense before he leads the send-off at the wharf in Sual, Pangasinan last
Wednesday afternoon of the 17 Vietnamese fishermen released from detention by
the Philippine government.

The
presidential visit was the first in Sual and the three million population
province after Duterte was elected as president and assumed officed at noon of
June this year.

Background
was the two of the three Vietnamese vessels that would be used by the 17 to
sail for six days to Vietnam. Photo: Mortz C. Ortigoza

“The
president is still in Davao (City),” I heard at 1:00 pm Sual Mayor Bing Arcinue
told the mayors of Western Pangasinan who were in a huddle with their
Congressman Boying Celeste.

I told
them it would take two hours from Davao to Clark, Pampanga in his jet and
another less than 30 minutes from Clark via a helicopter to the rustic town of
Sual.

Why I
know it? Geez, I used to ride in Air Asia via Clark, when the mostly Malaysian
Tony Fernandes’ owned airline used to service the routes, whenever I went home
via Davao City.

Why I
know it took 30 minutes from Clark to Sual?

When
then presidential candidate Mar Roxas barnstormed San Fernando City, La Union,
one of the pilots of his night capable flying helicopter told me that Manila to
San Fernando City took one hour for a chopper to fly, thus I just estimated it
that Clark and Sual, host of the next two biggest more than two thousand megawatts
coal power plants in the Philippines, take less than 30 minutes for the five,
with each powerful two –engine and four blades presidential Bell made helicopters,
to traverse.

***

“Did
it occur to you when you were a cadet at the PMA (Philippine Military Academy)
to join the air force?” I posed to Pangasinan 2nd District
Congressman Pol Bataoil (PMA Class 1976) while he was watching with Region 1
Regional Director Chief Superintendent (one star general) Greg Pimentel,
Pangasinan Police Director Senior Superintendent (full colonel) Ronald Lee
while two air force’s UH-1H” Super Huey” were landing and taking off around
2:30 pm at the wharf probably for some scouting of the area or testing the
gustiness from the Lingayen Gulf.

He
said it never occur in his mind to be a fly boy despite the air force only had
25 percent quota for the graduating class at the long gray line in Baguio City.

“Many
of us then want to be with the PC (Philippine Constabulary). We idolized the
likes of Amado T. Espino, Jr (PMA Class 1972 who later became a three termed
governor of Pangasinan) that apprehended top communist leaders like Dante
“Kumander Dante” Buscayno," Bataoil said.

“Son
of a gun, so the PC had the likes of Espino while the other branches of service
had their heroes. Were you familiar with Army’s hero Julius Javier a goat or
the last in the honor roll of the PMA Class of 1970 but became general and
legendary artillery man Army General Rodolfo Canieso (PMA Class of 1956). Si
Julius Javier may movie pa titled the Scout Ranger!” I enthused.

Bataoil
emphatically told me the feats of Javier, an ilonggo like me.

“Even
as company commander he joined patrol and engaged the Muslim rebels in Mindanao
in a fire fight. There was an incident where Moro snipers were hiding on the
trees in the forest and they were pinning down his troop”

Bataoil
recalled how Javier ordered one of his men to run as bait for the sniper.

“Ninerbiyos
ang sundalo but he had to comply while running as the sniper tried to pin him
down. Javier watched where the shot came from then Javier fired at the location
of the sniper”.

Sometimes
the sniper, the solon explained, could not be hit and he had to order another
soldier to run as bait.

“One
of the soldiers feared that he would die would not comply with the order. An
angry Javier then asked him to watch and fire where the shot came from as he
would use himself as the running target.

After
he ran, he shouted at the nervous soldier if he hit the shooter from the Moro
National Liberation Front (MNLF).

“Hinde
po sir,!” the soldier shouted back.

Javier
asked the soldier to run as bait. The soldier hesitated.

“Javier
shouted pag di ka tumakbo, ako ang babaril sa iyo!”

The
former two- star police general said the poor soldier complied as Javier
trained his Armalite rifle to the whereabouts of the Moro’s marksman.

“Sir,
may mga tall tales about Canieso, an ilonggo and kanyonero, I heard among
non-officers when I visited Awang Dinaig , Maguindanao Air Force base where my
father was assigned in the late 1970s,” I said.